When 87-year-old Alice Jadwigia Armstrong looked up from her hospital bed and saw the smiling face of Sister Lourdes Miranda, she was visibly buoyed by the nun’s presence. Clasping the hand of the Little Sister of the Poor, the white-haired woman seemed transported to the security of her youth.
To mark the traditional opening of the judicial year, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will celebrate a “Red Mass” at St. Mary in Annapolis Oct. 20. The 6 p.m. liturgy will be followed by a reception and banquet at the Marriott Annapolis Waterfront and is expected to attract judges, lawyers, legislators, executives and other legal professionals from throughout the state.
In preparing for the H1N1 flu virus, the Archdiocese of Baltimore is asking the faithful to develop some new habits, such as a more precise distribution of Holy Communion and the liberal use of hand sanitizer.
A special and gifted opportunity is mine this morning to offer this Mass with the deacons of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and their spouses in the context of today’s Gospel. And on several levels. Most of you are married and we welcome the wives who are present. We thank them for their invaluable partnership that […]
The funeral Mass for Sgt. 1st Class Bradley Bohle, an Army Green Beret medic serving in the 3rd Division, 7th Special Forces Group in Afghanistan, will be held on Monday, October 5 at 10 a.m. at St. Bernadette Catholic Church, located at 801 Stevenson Road in Severn. At the request of the Bohle family, no […]
The United States Catholic Medical Association will hold its 77th Annual Education Conference in Baltimore, the first Catholic diocese in the United States, October 9-11, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at the Inner Harbor. The Conference, “Theology of the Body—Modern Challenges to Health, Conscience and Human Dignity,” will address issues of conscience formation and its […]
The Catholic Review Though I have previously been reluctant to use this column as a sort of “calendar review”—a rundown of my comings and goings—I thought such an exercise this week might prove beneficial, given the significance, if not the volume, of the events which occurred in the Archdiocese last week. Though I detail only […]
VATICAN CITY – Relief workers for the Catholic aid organization Caritas responded immediately after a violent tsunami struck the South Pacific island groups of Samoa and American Samoa.
Stephen Kent’s column “Looking to a higher law” (CR, Aug. 20) demonstrates again that the Catholic News Service has made no serious commitment to oppose abortion. To demonstrate standing up against abortion in the political arena is futile, the author’s hypothetical starts with the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Afterwards inferior courts would overturn anti-abortion legislation and Supreme Court precedent, if one follows the logic of Kent. He should have been calling for American members of the church to act like Americans and defend the 14th amendment to the Constitution and to fight for their right to representative government against a judicial oligarchy.
In February 2009, Archbishop Edwin O’Brien appointed a Blue Ribbon Committee on Catholic Schools and asked that it develop a strategic plan for Catholic schools by June 2010. As part of this effort, the committee and its staff are holding listening sessions at 10 locations throughout the Archdiocese. Catholic school parents, teachers, and others are […]
The Pope John Paul II Prayer Garden in downtown Baltimore has a colorful new backdrop in the form of a large mural that covers most of one side of a parking garage on Charles Street.
WASHINGTON – Catholic charitable organizations are stepping up to help victims in the Philippines after the worst flood in decades hit in late September.
